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TKJunkMail
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I'm sticking to the whole "I'll believe it when I see it" idea about WiMax..
I just don't see what it is that Comcast & Time Warner Cable hope to get out of this deal. Become a competitor to cell phone companies? Are they worried thier high speed wired plant won't be competitive with wireless broadband?
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An additional revenue stream? A means to work around the current 30% cap of customers that Comcast is bumping up against? Or merely a means to squash potential competition before it really forms?


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said by BK See Profile :

I'm sticking to the whole "I'll believe it when I see it" idea about WiMax..
I just don't see what it is that Comcast & Time Warner Cable hope to get out of this deal. Become a competitor to cell phone companies? Are they worried thier high speed wired plant won't be competitive with wireless broadband?
How about low cost wireless service extensions to their existing cable plant?


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Or they see what I see. Their cost for deployment of WiMAX could actually be much cheaper than that of any provider if they run copper to the towers at DOCSIS 3.0 speeds that can serve a majority of customers on smaller tiers.

WiMAX can also be used to transmit more than just IP based services. I don't know what kind of spectrum they might have but with their coverage footprint of cable across their markets, the network is more than capable of handling the load including their powerboost services.

They are also in a better position than what Sprint will ever be at this point. Of course all the problems Comcast has with it's landline will also go into it's wireless with bit torrent throttling amongst other things according to users here. It's one step for WiMAX though as the technology struggles to get adopted by carriers who see the big reward at the end of the tunnel but are falling short on financial backing to make such a thing a reality.


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said by BK See Profile :

I'm sticking to the whole "I'll believe it when I see it" idea about WiMax..
I just don't see what it is that Comcast & Time Warner Cable hope to get out of this deal. Become a competitor to cell phone companies? Are they worried thier high speed wired plant won't be competitive with wireless broadband?
2 words - Wireless Broadband


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said by BK See Profile :

I'm sticking to the whole "I'll believe it when I see it" idea about WiMax..
I just don't see what it is that Comcast & Time Warner Cable hope to get out of this deal. Become a competitor to cell phone companies? Are they worried thier high speed wired plant won't be competitive with wireless broadband?
I think the goal is to become more telco-ish, By providing wireless voice/data they can take revenue from there competitors more. First it was Voip, now its wireless. Comcast wants to become another ATT i am convinced.
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